A group of edu, org, com and gov organizations are announcing an Open Content system in the tradition of Open Source software. The Internet Archive is a...
*Please circulate widely and apologies for cross-posting* I hope this will be of interest to you.If you have questions or comments, please contact Earl Mardle...
Those of you who have been following the Google Print project and the publisher lawsuits that followed may be interested in this response from Google: ...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
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Oct 24, 2005 5:33 pm
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As a followup to the Google and Yahoo book digitization efforts, list readers may be interested in the BBC's project to offer access to its archive of 500,000...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Oct 25, 2005 11:09 pm
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At an Internet Archive event in San Francisco tonight 14 libraries and MSN joined the Open Content Alliance. MSN kicked off their association by committing to...
Here is another new story from the BBC on the book digitization projects noted in recent postings to this list: ...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Oct 26, 2005 4:27 pm
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As a technology professional, who lives in San Francisco known for it's progressive ideas. I would like to recommend that this legislation/contract be revised...
The Department of Special Collections at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) Davidson Library recently placed online, with free access, over 5000...
Computerworld magazine online today carries an interesting new article: http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,106457,00.html ... -...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Nov 30, 2005 12:39 am
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I recommand to list readers this new article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about the Google/Yahoo/Microsoft book digitization projects: A Risky Gamble...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Dec 8, 2005 6:20 am
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A correspondent reports about my posting of a pointer to Siva ... Whoops, I had not realized that access to the URL ...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Dec 10, 2005 5:50 pm
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Access to Knowledge Conference Yale Information Society Project April 21-23, 2006 Yale Law School http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kconfmain.html The...
List readers may be interested in the debate between Nature and Encyclopaedia Britannica on the accuracy of online encyclopedias: ...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Apr 3, 2006 8:00 pm
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This new article on the Google book project may be of interest: @String{j-IEEE-SEC-PRIV = "IEEE Security \& Privacy"} @Article{Lesk:2006:SIF, author =...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Apr 4, 2006 1:13 am
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On April 18, 1906 at 5:12am a massive earthquake shook San Francisco. The resulting destruction and resulting fire left this great city in ruins. As we...
Molly Bragg
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Apr 19, 2006 2:09 pm
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Sent by the Library of Congress Guild to highlight the risk of quasi-privatization of some of the LOC image archives. - Greg Johnson From: "Guild"...
Greg Johnson
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Apr 19, 2006 2:11 pm
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In a message dated 4/19/2006 10:12:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, gjohnson@... writes: Sent by the Library of Congress Guild to highlight the risk of ...
It sometimes seems as though our administration is more interested in opening access to the public national records of other countries than it is to our own. ...
The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education Presents: The Bay Area Education Leaders Forum (EdForum) "How to Be Systemic and Site-Based:...
Call for Papers: ICUDL 2006 The 2nd International Conference on Universal Digital Library "Towards building the globally owned Universal Digital Library where...
Youssef Eldakar
youssef.eldakar@...
Sep 2, 2006 2:20 pm
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The proliferation of digital data is a sure sign that we are getting deeper and deeper into the knowledge economy. But have we made any effort to ensure that...
I have an entirely contrary point of view to the previous author. ... available. ... If someone had copied the analog Apollo tapes to digital format, we would...
In a message dated 10/27/2006 1:36:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, brad@... writes: Something similar could be done for important archives. Keep five,...
... Brad then goes on with a plan to make many redundant copies with some crypto to ensure that the Bits are as they were at the time the Digital documnet was...
There is a news story [in French] of book digitization projects here: ...
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe@...
Nov 6, 2006 2:44 pm
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... Actually a one-way hash is not strictly speaking, cryptography. Thinking of it as a digital thumbprint is probably the best way of metaphorizing it. ... ...
Brad Jensen wrote: ... And Brad said. ... I am not wanting to sound like I am arguing, and I relaise that I might 8) What I am trying to get across is that a...
The arguments so far have been very interesting but our collections issue is that most if not all the most current imagery we are receiving into our collection...
**Remote participation in the A2K2 conference on the accompanyong Wiki: http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Yale_A2K2. We invite you to contribute...
Hi all, A new web site is now online, http://www.mortalityschedules.com and it is a directory of every found transcription of the census mortality schedules...
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